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English travel writer, probably born 1575 to 1577
Samuel Purchas
Works
- Purchas his Pilgrimage, or Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages and Places (1613) (external scan), (external scan)
- Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the histories of Man. Relating the wonders of his Generation, vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of his Regeneration, (1619)
- Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625)
- The latter reprinted in 1904–1905 with original volumes broken into over a dozen:
- Volume 12 (including the end of original edition's Volume 2 and the very beginning of Volume 3) (transcription project)
- The strange adventures of Andrew Battell. Reprinted from Purchas’ work 1901 (external scan)
- Theatre of Political Flying Insects, 1657
Works about Purchas
- "Purchas, Samuel," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Purchas, Samuel," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Purchas, Samuel," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Purchas, Samuel," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1891)
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